Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen was a country rock band that had moderate success in the 70s. The group’s founder was George Frayne IV, who took the stage name Commander Cody. The band’s name was inspired by 1950s film serials featuring the character Commando Cody. The group’s biggest hit was a 1972 remake of the 1955 single Hot Rod Lincoln.
“Big Man” Clarence Clemons played saxophone on Aretha Franklin’s Freeway of Love, which often gets confused with Bruce Springsteen’s Pink Cadillac.
Christopher (Kit) Carson (1809–1868) was an American frontiersman, mountain man, scout, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and US Army officer. He was born in Kentucky on Christmas Eve 1809 to a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and raised in Missouri on land owned by Daniel Boone’s sons, and later settled in Taos NM.
The following are named after Kit Carson:
Carson National Forest in New Mexico
Carson City and Carson River in Nevada (Interstate 580 (Nevada) is a freeway there)
Carson High School, Carson City, Nevada
Kit Carson Park in Escondido, California
Carson Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota
Carson, New Mexico
Fort Carson, Colorado, near Colorado Springs
Carson Pass, California — Kit Carson carved his name onto a tree near the summit
Carson Pass Highway — California State Route 88
Ed Ames once taught Johnny Carson how to throw a tommyhawk
Easily one of TV’s funniest moments ever, and Carson’s best ad lib.
The word tomahawk comes from the Powhatan (Algonquin) word tamahaac. The Algonquians created the tomahawk, typically used as a weapon, but they could also be used for everyday tasks such as chopping, cutting or hunting.
The “tomahawk steak” – so named because of the long, exposed rib bone left on one end of the cut, making it resemble a tomahawk – is essentially an oversized bone-in ribeye steak. The cut, and the name, have become popular at steakhouses and higher-end butchers in recent years, and the cut frequently commands a high price.
Over a hundred years ago, steaks were seen as a relatively low-status food, as opposed to more sophisticated cuisine. T.S. Eliot’s poem “Four Preludes” links steaks to run-down neighborhoods:
*With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots
*
Similarly, oysters, now an expensive food, were once cheap, as seen in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”:
restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
Similarly to gkster’s post, lobster, now more of a luxury food or delicacy, was once a poor person’s meal that was typically fed to animals, prisoners, and indentured servants. However, lobster became a popular luxury food in the late 1800s and remains one to this day.
The largest documented lobster was caught off Nova Scotia in 1977. It weighed 44 pounds and six ounces, and may have been over a century old.
Natives of Prince Edward Island report that lobster was still regarded as food for the poor in the 1950s. Children from well-to-do families would bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school for lunch, while children from poor families would have lobster sandwiches.
Canada’s first openly gay premier, Wade MacLauchlan, was defeated in last week’s election in Prince Edward Island after a four year term in office. His Liberal party went from majority government to third place, and he lost his own seat.
Prince Edward Island is the smallest Canadian province in both land area and population, but it is the most densely populated. Prince Edward Island was named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the 4th son of King George III.
Samut Songkhram is the smallest province of Thailand by area, and the second smallest by population. It was the birthplace of Chang and Eng Bunker, the famous Siamese twins.
Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country that was never colonized by a European country.
According to George Modelski, the largest city in the world in 1700 A.D. was Thailand’s Phra Nakhon Sri Ayutthaya (Tพระนครศรีอยุธยา) with a population of one million.
Until the 1780’s, when Philadelphia grew past 40,000 people, the largest city ever to exist in what is now the United States was Cahokia, the center of the Native American Mississipian culture. It is now in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis, and is most notable for the complex of mounds remaining there.
Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” for the film Philadelphia, was a hit in many countries, particularly Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and Norway, where it topped the singles charts.
The song was a critical triumph and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song and four Grammy Awards, Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo, and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television. In 2004 it finished at #68 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
There are currently eleven NFL teams with league championship droughts longer than 50(!) years. By their last championship year, they are:
— 1947: Arizona Cardinals
— 1957: Detroit Lions
— 1961: Tennessee Titans (AFL, as the Houston Oilers)
— 1963: San Diego Chargers (AFL)
— 1964: Cleveland Browns
— 1965: Buffalo Billlls (AFL)
— 1968: New York Jets
— 1969: Kansas City Chiefs
In 1961 the Minnesota Vikings first took the field as a new expansion team. They never won a championship although in 1969 when they lost to the AFL Champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, they were the NFL Champions. That loss was in Super Bowl IV, which was the fourth and final AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football.
Similarly, in 1966, the Atlanta Falcons began as an expansion club and have never won a league championship.
Similarly, in 1968, the Cincinnati Bengals began as an expansion club and have never won a league championship.
Before winning Super Bowl LII, 41-33 over the New England Patriots, the Philadelphia Eagles’ last championship was in the 1960 season. Super Bowl LII ended their 57 season championship drought. The Philadelphia Eagles have won four championships in their history: 1948, 1949, 1960, and 2017.
Besides the Falcons and Bengals, there are three other NFL teams that have never won a league championship. All three are relatively recent expansion teams: Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans. Carolina and Jacksonville entered the league in 1995, and Houston was admitted in 2002.
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